I went to Kroger on Monday and I found that no one cares about fancy sauces in a pandemic. I couldn’t believe it. People do know what really matters and that is the basics. Foods that offer nutrition and can last for a long period of time on a shelf. I must have lost the footage from the Dollar General’s TP section. Bare! Nothing to be seen.

Here is what we found at both Dollar General and Kroger. Remember the half-empty shelves will have to get used to. We had a terrible harvest in the Fall and no Agri Farm Hands this year. Which means a terrible harvest this Fall. 

That is what I’ll be doing today. I did get footage from two stores.

I have noticed a parallel between the food shortages in the Depression and what we are currently seeing today. Last spring we saw horrible weather which led to a terrible harvest. Plus there were electrical problems in Northern California with their processing spots. The processing spots often got their electric cut off because of the risk of wildfires. Or so they were told. This year there is a shortage of farmhands to put in the crops. How will this affect the harvest? There won’t be a harvest. No farmhands to do the work, no food.
The second problem we are seeing today is a shortage of money. In other words, more supply than people buy it. Over this week alone we hit 10 million people unemployed. We are being told it’s because of a “virus”. I have said before, and I’ll probably say it many more times before people get it through their heads this was bio-engineered by our government not China. History will reflect this fact. Now, why is that important? Before the Depression, the economy was engineered to fail. The failure started in March of 1929 and came to fruition in October. The market showed signs in the Spring of having cracks and there was even a warning given. People laughed at the person. That person was Paul M. Warburg. He came from a strong economic background. Come October, people weren’t laughing anymore. Well, at least the average person like ourselves wasn’t. They were the ones who lost everything. Jobs, security, finances, you name it they lost it. We are seeing the same thing happen. The first thing is let’s address what the economy is. It is based on our GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Right off the bat, we are in trouble. We don’t make stuff anymore. Not like we did during the 50s and up till the 90s when NAFTA was put into place. My late father worked in a factory for 13 years after he was unemployed for two or three years because hiring Vietnam Vets wasn’t popular. The factory he worked at made the motors for washers and dryers for Whirlpool. We don’t do this anymore. We barely make cars. Today we are seeing the big three car companies coming together to convert their factories to produce more ventilators. This started as soon as it was apparent there was a need. During WW II all these same factories produced what was needed for the troops. No executive orders were needed. Now or then. It was understood that this was what America needed and that is what happened then and now.

Now let’s look at the markets. This represents shares or stocks. Think of a pizza. If you have 16 slices you have a whole pizza. The more shares of a company you have the more votes you get in the company and eventually you could per say own enough shares to be on a board of directors. That puts you into another bracket. Once you hit that level you are pretty much insulated from loss. Why and how? Insider trading. Which means you get inside the information key to making money and the difference between losing money. Remember, recently there were several Senators and other high ranking members of the government who are profiting from this crisis by buying millions of shares of PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) companies. There were closed caucus meetings back in December with both sides of the aisle taken to. The ones who did comment had nothing good to say about what was coming. They started buying millions of shares after that meeting and dumping other stocks. This happened in September of 1929 through mid-October of 1929.

How did most of the American people lose everything? Buying on margin. Basically you put up say $20 of $100 to buy a share. A broker puts up the other $70. Now if your stock or share made money you got what was left after the brokerage got their part plus fees back. Nice little scam right. Wrong! When the bottom fell out in October, these firms lost a lot of money. Some ended up closing. People like us, we lost homes, jobs, families. The suicide rate was overblown and hyped. But there were people who did take their lives. They were usually the people who either had been wealthy all their lives and had no courage to face what was coming. Also, they lost everything late in life. Like in their 50s.
Once people had lost everything, there was no buying food. This brings in the breadlines and soup kitchens. Also, I have to say the Communist and Socialist Parties of America were in the streets demanding the government intervene with JOBs, food, and housing. Jobs were always first. These two parties understand that humans are meant to work. It is an ingrained element of our psyche. To those who say socialist want something for nothing, I say this, put your money where your mouth is. Moving on. They were the ones then and they are now trying to do it again. Guaranteed full-time employment is the right thing to do and making laying off people should be illegal. As it is in most socialist countries like Germany, our closest NATO ally.

Now let’s look at how the Agriculture was affected then and is being affected now. In the 1930s when people didn’t have money for food they would often work for food. Meaning they would work on a farm for food for themselves and their families. We will be doing this again. People buckle up and chock your pride down hard. You will be working on a farm for your meals. The Bible makes it clear a man who doesn’t work doesn’t eat. In other words, get out there and plant food. This is where we are going. It’s going to be hard and humbling. Once you are living on someone’s farm in exchange for a roof over your family’s head and food on your plates, you will understand what it means to be humane again. To be connected to the earth. During WWII many women were sent to the countryside in England to work the jobs men once worked. Many of these women went on to live on a farm connected to the land again. And never left.
The reason I mentioned WWII many times is because things going on today were also going on then. The Anti-German and Japan propaganda has been replaced with Anti-Chinese propaganda along with, Anti- Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and Syria. There was an intense hatred for those two countries which helped make it possible to do the following leading up to WWII: ban their native languages in public, bar them from certain places and eventually rounded up the Japanese for “their safety” of course, so they could live in FEMA camps we know today. This is happening again. The manufactured virus is covering the push for war, crashing the economy and markets. Trust me that little $1,200 you are supposed to receive isn’t going to cover anything on purpose. The goal is to make people so desperate they will willingly join the service before a draft is enacted. We will be so hungry, cold, and tired that we will go to WWIII just for three squares a day and a roof over our heads. Just like during the Depression. What pulled America out of the Depression was WWII. Jobs returned, food was everywhere and shelter was to be had. Rations flowed like wine in the place of money. I remember my late mother telling me about a ration for shoes, flour, sugar, and everything else. The one she remembered clearly was red and the size of a dime. That was for shoes. When she died, her closet was full of shoes.

References:

UN warns of global food shortage caused by coronavirus measures: report https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-may-cause-some-food-shortages-says-government-document-223308504.html

FEMA/DHS Food Shortages Timeline Leaked / China Panic Buying Food / Have Hope http://www.iceagefarmer.com/2020/04/04/femadhs-food-shortages-timeline-leaked-china-panic-buying-food-have-hope/

Wisconsin farmers forced to dump milk as coronavirus slams a fragile dairy economy https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2020/04/01/coronavirus-forces-dairy-farmers-dump-milk-wisconsin-covid-19/5108609002/

Radical Farm Protests https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_11.html Farmers on Strike http://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/farmers-strike

‘It’s Catastrophic!’ Lockdown Forces Florida Farmers to Scrap Food They Can’t Sell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zG_MjV–S4

Here Comes The Next Crises: Mortgages to Default In Mass, “Biggest Wave Of Delinquencies In History” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDSmXJTFyEs

Meet the Wisconsin grocery warehouse workers who’ve shipped 162 million pounds of food during coronavirus panic-buying https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2020/04/04/roundys-wisconsin-warehouse-ships-162-million-tons-food-hiring/5089674002/

During the 1930s farmers were faced with the same crisis they are facing today. More product then can be processed. The end result was wasting milk. We are facing this once again.